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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

I was made aware of the ZespriKiwiFruit Lunch 2.0 contest at BlogHer when a woman handed me a flyer in the EXPO hall. She began to tell me about it and before she could even finish, I said "I know exactly what I am making."

At that moment it hit me that I could not recall even introducing my children to Kiwi and at the same moment, I knew exactly how I would. No, not by presenting some fuzzy brown oval of a fruit and telling them to try it. Nope, I would combine this lively fruit into a favorite recipe of theirs: Strawberry muffins. So after some tinkering, we have the perfect muffins for lunch boxes, snacks or even breakfast. These will definitely be in my daughter's lunch box this year!

Directions:1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a muffin tin with baking spray. In a small saucepan, bring strawberries and kiwi to a boil over medium heat, mashing gently, while they cook for 1 minute. Pour into a bowl to cool.

5. Fill muffin pan-makes about 15 muffins or just overfill one pan to make 12 muffins.

6. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, about 22 minutes. Cool completely.

I brought the muffins out to them while they were outside playing with a friend and said nothing except 'snack time.' After they consumed them I told them those were Kiwi-Strawberry muffins. My son asked 'What Kiwi Momma?' and I told them it is a fruit. In unison, I heard 'Yum'.

These look DELICIOUS! :) Thank you for sharing this unique recipe. I would have never thought to combine the two in muffins, even though that combo shows up everywhere else. :) I am excited to try these. Hopefully I enjoy them as much as your kids do. :)